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Editor's note: Cheyenne's Mark Junge (junges@bresnan.net) is crossing America on a bicycle. Tyco International, whose products include portable, liquid oxygen containers, and the WTE are sponsoring his trip. His columns appear here on Mondays. His trip can be tracked on the Internet at http://heliosfreedomtour.com/ route.aspx
Notes From the Lincoln Highway: The longest way around is the shortest way home _ a menagerie of old stuff _ Echoes in Echo Canyon _ Lincoln Highway markers in the Bridger Valley _ the new old Evanston _ John Wesley Powell was right.See the full content of this document
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Junge Reaches Wyoming
July 11 -- In the continuing saga of this cross-country bicycle escapade along the Lincoln Highway, climbing Emigration Canyon east of Salt Lake City, I am reminded of a story our grade-school class once read titled, "The Longest Way Around is the Shortest Way Home."
It's a lesson in geography and the economy of travel. The young protagonist finds out the hard way that by girdling the hill along a gradually ascending trail, he surmounts the obstacle quicker and easier than by trying to follow the shortest distance between two points, or str...See the full content of this document
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